dodgefreak8
Bearcat
This was my first ever big game hunt in 2002. Was lucky enough to take this bull in northwest Colorado with a ruger m77/50. Sold the rifle and have regretted it ever since.
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First big game animal was with a ruger
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Mine was a nice whitetail buck taken in western SD while hunting mule deer many years ago. 
Also a Ruger 77 in .270, I wish I still had that one as well.
Also a Ruger 77 in .270, I wish I still had that one as well.
That is a nice bag and tasty looking!
contender
Ruger Guru
Well, I go back a lot more years,, and my first big game was a whitetail. I was 16 at the time,, and using a Marlin 30-30 lever gun. It was stolen from me in Texas about 4 years later.
Very nice! Tyrone I lament your stolen 30-30. I had a bunch of guns and tools grow feet when a drug addicted family member thought his habit was more important than my property. My 1st big game was a 4 point buck with a 12 gauge H&R single barrel shotgun. That was one of the guns stolen...
First 'big game' was a button buck @ 50 yards with a Remington 760 in 30/06. That old rifle kicked the snot out of a 125# teenager. Back then, there wasn't any pre-hunt zeroing or such. Grab whatever 'shells' the local hardware had on the shelf and go hunting. Open sights, heavy recoil, questionable zero--it's a wonder that anyone filled a tag.
Mine was a nice little buck (Mule Deer) in Northern New Mexico with a pre 64 model 70 30-06
Paul B
Hunter
The year was 1949. I was all of eleven years old and hunting with my Great-grandfather's 1911 issue model 94 Winchester carbine in good old 30-30. I still have that rifle. I actually shot a nice four point California Blacktail buck at roughly 15 paces. I was on a stands and he just walked right on by past me so I shot him.
Paul B.
Paul B.
my first was a whitetail doe back in 1971, shotgun only area using a Stevens 20 gauge single shot with foster type slugs , one round and she went maybe 40/50 yards down the ridge and piled up , left a blood trail a blind man could have followed in the dry leaves
akbluz
Blackhawk
The first big game that I ever shot was a 45inch 4-brow tine bull moose in 2008 on a solo hunt off the Denali Highway here in Alaska. Sadly my rifle wasn't a Ruger - it was a Winchester model 70 in .375H&H magnum. The Winchester is a pretty nice rifle but it's not a Ruger. I've been looking for a Ruger model 77 in 375H&H at every gun show I attended but so far it has remained elusive. You'd think I would have seen one by now.
Both of us here our first were white tail. Mine with the Savage 99 in .250 inherited from my Dad. My husband was with an 1886 Winchester in .45-70 that belonged to his GrandDad who had inherited it.
Killed my first deer with a Browning A-5 12 gauge and one-ought buckshot, 50 years ago this Thanksgiving. Many since then with rifle, sixgun, muzzle loaders (real ones, caplocks loaded with the Holy black, no inlines), recurve and longbows. Can't bowhunt this year due to surgery, my goal is to take one with my Old Army and maybe head shoot one with my .218 Bee. After that, the Winchester 71 .348 might come out to play. Or the .40-65 Sharps. I like a challenge (but yeah, I got a safe full of modern rifles too.)
